Ever since the beginning of March, when Sir Keir Starmer chaired what was called the ‘leaders meeting on Ukraine’, I have felt as if I have been occupying some kind of parallel universe. The summit was the genesis of what has become known as the ‘coalition of the willing’, a loose alliance of 31 countries pledged to provide a peacekeeping or ‘reassurance’ force in Ukraine, with the United Kingdom and France making most of the running.